Hate: That Hobbit game had no business being in the tournament at all, much less the A Finals bank. It was a known issue that the right ramp dumps balls in the outlane and absolutely nobody cared. “Yeah, it’s been doing that.”

Game would have been pulled from a bar league. Not sure what anybody was trying to prove with that one but I didn’t think it was cute. We pay a lot of money and spend a lot of time participating in that tournament and to have a game like that in the finals - or tournament at all - is not appropriate.

Like: Everything else. They all seemed to play like normal, functioning pinball games. Game I’ve never played or competed on before I’ll go with Ready Aim Fire. It’s…in it’s own way…a skill game.

That Hobbit game had no business being in the tournament at all, much less the A Finals bank.

I played that bank during qualifying and yeah, not a good specimen for that title. Aside from the habitrail suicides, it seemed like all the power settings were on max and the ball was literally flying all over the playfield.

I was actually looking forward to seeing some high level play on Hobbit to learn some things and gain more appreciation for the game, but it didn’t happen. Every match I saw on it was a battle of the garbage games. Even the tiebreaker to make the A finals between Dave and Colin was terrible. I didn’t get a chance to play it, but aside from the ramp > outlane, does that game even play as it should with lightning flippers? Seems like an awfully wide playfield to make that switch.

And it’s too bad that players were avoiding it in playoffs because the rest of that bank was really solid!

@jeldz the game is way too easy on normal settings. Lighting flippers seems like a fair compromise if you are gonna put that generally terrible game in the tournament.

Cranking the flipper power up to well beyond spec so it plays like Rollerball and throws ramp shots into the outlane isn’t. The game I played in I’d guess 50 percent of made ramp shots resulted in drains.

This game was chosen to help decide the world match play championships, and settle who moves on and who doesn’t after 3 days of pinball competition at the highest level.

Cranking the flipper power up to well beyond spec so it plays like Rollerball and throws ramp shots into the outlane isn’t. The game I played in I’d guess 50 percent of made ramp shots resulted in drains.